Good evening everyone 👋

For those of you that are new to the community, we post weekly core team updates to our main channels, including to the wiki. These are on a Friday, at some point in the evening, depending on how busy we've been.

There have been 129 of these so far. You can see a full history here:

https://wiki.edge.network/getting-started/core-team-updates/weekly-updates

On to this week’s update… #130!

Nothing says we’ve been working hard like the weekly project update being at 22:59. I’m covering for Joseph this evening as he’s been called away. It’s been a packed week here and we have a big release to tell you about as well.

(Thanks for your patience everyone in waiting for this update!)

The move to Discord pushed further with most of the team now working here instead of in Slack. You can see this in the core team members, and it means that we’re generally more available. This is part of a wider move towards community governance and the ultimate goals of the project.

The extended distribution period for $XE closed yesterday. Console has now been mothballed, and the site updated with links to the explorer and the wallet. For those of you who haven’t been here for previous updates, the public roadmaps can be found here:

https://wiki.edge.network/getting-started/project-roadmaps

Today marks the start of Q4 and wow, what a Q3 we had, releasing the explorer, opening the bridge, listing on Uniswap, and in-between those, dozens of smaller releases here and there and a lot of work on v2 behind the scenes. We have a lot planned for Q4, including on-chain staking, a new CLI, a public v2 testnet, v2 mainnet device onboarding, the mobile wallet apps, VPS public beta, and to kick off the quarter, the wallet sell feature, which is now live!

Accessible via the web wallet, you can now sell your XE directly for USDC. The process is similar to withdrawals, except instead of receiving EDGE you’ll receive USDC. The exchange rate will update in real time, and tracks the value of the EDGE token.